You’re writing a script about a killer shark, reach Act 3 and need to figure out how to kill this unkillable monster. What if it chomps on an oxygen tank and blows itself up? That could work but must be set up earlier. So this week’s #Scriptsky #Screenwriting thread is on PLANTS AND PAYOFFS. 🧵1

Rhoda rented an apartment in Midtown for $300/month

I’m sad that this likely didn’t happen (no NYC newspaper hits, only on iffy sites) because I too am in love

i really want it to be "horse jumped turnstiles" please please plea

How dare they presume to know what would dazzle a penguin.

my strongest opinion about homeschooling is that we should ban charter and private schools and put enormous amounts of money into public schools

This is the ur-grift: it’s not the get-rich-quick scheme that makes you rich, it’s teaching other people how to sell it to someone else.

“That’s what Hamlet’s about? I thought it was about Romeo and Juliet!” - Linda Belcher

Oh she’s a scam artist, got it! Every single time you hear about a person offering coaching in one of these pieces they’re just a scammer and the media falls for it

kid threw away my 90-day supply of ssris bc the internet said the dose was too high hahahahahahahaha I’m going to have to get a new scrip tomorrow and then pay out of pocket hahahahahaha everyone says I’m wrong to be angry hahahahaha (help)

Where do I find half a pint of None?

my mom, when telling me about a post she's seen where she's not sure if it's AI, will say "I'm not sure if it's real or stupid"

There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.

random thought while watching the new MUPPET SHOW: if you did this with the Law & Order cast, Stadler and Waldorf would be played by Briscoe and Munch.

Instagram has been showing me various examples Massage But They Set You On Fire, and, yes, ok

FB kept advertising a cat allergy spray and I was interested until the same cat allergy spray was also advertised as a treatment for TMJ and magnesium deficiency

WOW! 👏Philly DA Larry Krasner: “This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will. We will find you. We will achieve justice.” #ICEoffOurStreets #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

The Boswords 2026 Winter Wondersolve is just around the corner on Sunday, February 1. You can go to boswords.org to register and for more details. Come solve with us! The constructors below have prepared four puzzles (word counts on the mountains) for you to enjoy!

Crossed a divider today, stepping into knee-high snow, asking myself WHAT IF RAT SNOW WHAT IF RAT SNOW

On the off-chance any attorneys in Ohio follow me: DM me and we’ll figure out how to get you trained ahead of this, but I gotta emphasize the mere fact of filing a 2241 petition (you’ll learn what this is!) makes a huge difference in what happens here, you can make difference

Saw squirrels burrowing in and out of snow drifts, which makes me realize that Rat Snow is a possibility.

Today marks a major moment for child health: the AAP has released its updated 2026 childhood and adolescent immunization schedule. Updated annually to reflect the latest scientific evidence, this year’s schedule is formally endorsed by 12 leading medical and healthcare organizations. bit.ly/4r5KbaQ

look, the right wing's fever dream of the left is simply not true. no elected official no matter what their political persuasion is gong to go on TV and urge their constituents to read some hot man-on-man smut [aide whispers in my ear] wait what

everything is terrible but it’s a fine day for boiling stuff (candied citrus, chicken wings for stock)

Give warning. Sonnet 71 #ShakespeareSunday

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

“…hope for the future…” I started to say in the late-comers-out support group I finally showed up to, then immediately had to hang up on the zoom to take an emergency call from school

are they not monsters?

Push back on the propaganda and expose how the epistemic violence against trans people specifically and queer people write large has been allowed to stand unchallenged by people who used to claim to fight for us, but getting people to be okay with their own family being queer is also crucial.

I do have to point out that even with a more-accepting society, there is a gulf between "I am okay with queers" and "I am okay with my kid being a queer". People can support LGBT rights in the abstract and then get spooked when their own precious cinnamon roll makes them a "non-traditional family".

This episode is a perfect example of why @knowrogan.bsky.social exists. The media repeated the same story - 'Joe called ICE the Gestapo'. But they missed the point, because they didn't listen to the show. We listened, and it's clear that Joe is not "fully soured" on Trump - not remotely.

You've seen the headlines about Joe Rogan "blasting" Trump and ICE for their "Gestapo" tactics - but the media has it all wrong. Joe spent the majority of his interview with Rand Paul excusing and defending ICE and Trump. Check out this weeks Know Rogan Experience for more.

this is the worst analogy I’ve ever encountered and I taught freshman comp for 8 years

what in the fucking footloose is going on

My Roomba’s name is a relic of a few brief years of getting to imagine that I might get to be a person again 🤪

I was right. It's not like I had some irrational chip on my shoulder about these guys (Shermer, Krauss, Dawkins, etc). It's that other men didn't care when they assumed the primary complaint from a woman was that these men hate women, end of story. Because of course they hate women. That's fine.

Get in babies, we are hope scrolling tonight

Cancelling my Clinique skincare auto-renewals. Had no idea Lauder was involved. Yuck.

Watching Heated Rivalry, and couldn't help but realize that given the time frame it's set in the show could well end with Ilya Rozanov bleeding out in a Ukrainian trench. Then I thought, how much better would it have been if Frasier had ended that way?

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

ICE seems to get completely flummoxed when they’re being yelled at by white men over 35. They kind of put their heads down and shuffle their feet. It’s like their kryptonite.

It’s this. This is what your “6th grade was the best time of my life” acquaintances and angry neighbors and Facebook uncles are really seeing when they lie you about everything she and her wife allegedly did to “get themselves killed.” It’s queerness. What they see in the video is queerness.

The DOJ is going after Renee Good’s widow now. They HATE queer people.

the wildest thing is right-wingers acting like minnesotans in videos must be outside agitators when we can all hear their accents. i don't think i could do that accent convincingly if i spent a year practicing. and neither would i wish to. have you heard that shit? craziest american accent

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

30. the first and paramount purpose of a union is to improve working conditions for its members

22. i am not convinced bernie sanders has been a net positive on american politics

2. the role aa plays in american society is deeply fucked up

Put down your phone. Close your eyes. Imagine stretching out your limbs under water. Imagine sensing the hum of home, food, love, safety Let yourself dance in the water until the music brings her to you. (Whoever or whatever she is.) Then hold her. You are safe. Sleep.